Ménil-Hubert-en-Exmes | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Mortagne-au-Perche |
Canton: | Vimoutiers |
Insee: | 61268 |
Postal Code: | 61230 |
Mayor: | Émile Lampérière[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Vallées d'Auge et du Merlerault |
Coordinates: | 48.8142°N 0.2261°W |
Elevation M: | 300 |
Elevation Min M: | 169 |
Elevation Max M: | 296 |
Area Km2: | 10.34 |
Ménil-Hubert-en-Exmes (in French pronounced as /menil ybɛʁ ɑ̃.n‿ɛm/) is a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France.
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, La Bergerie, La Farinière and Ménil-Hubert-en-Exmes.[2]
The Commune is one of 30 communes that make up the Natura 2000 protected area of Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge.[3] The site is 21,541 hectares in size and consists of a well-preserved wooded landscape that hosts three protected beetles, the European stag beetle, the great capricorn beetle and the Hermit Beetle.[4]
The commune has one river, the Vie and a single stream, the Douy running through its borders.
Chateau Menil-Hubert-en-Exmes an 18th century chateau that was classified as a Monument historique in 2010.[5] The artist Edgar Degas was invited to stay at the Chateau in 1859 and had a workshop built for him to work in.[6]